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Nigeria
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The Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan is a federal institution for forestry and agricultural technical education at Forest Hill, Jericho, Ibadan, Oyo State. Forestry technical education in Nigeria began with the school of forestry at Zaria in 1939; the school moved the same year to Moor Plantation, Ibadan, and in 1941 to its present site at Forest Hill, Jericho. As the Federal School of Forestry it was the only higher institution of forestry education in the African sub-region until the early 1960s.
Its mission is to produce technical manpower for the sustainable development of forestry in Nigeria and Africa and to serve as a credible reference in forestry matters. The college awards the National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND), and also runs pre-ND and vocational programmes such as the Forest Guard course and short courses of three to six months and one year.
Academic departments are Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Extension and Management, Agricultural Technology, Computer Science, Crop Production Technology, Forestry and Environmental Technology, Horticultural Technology, Science Laboratory Technology, Statistics, Wood and Paper Technology, and Basic Science and General Studies. The Agribusiness Management department was approved by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in December 2022 and inaugurated in February 2023 with twelve pioneer students.
The academic year runs on a two-semester system of about 15 weeks each: the first semester begins in September/October and ends in February, the second begins in March and ends in June/July. Teaching follows the Unit Course System, a credit system with a course load of 18 to 24 units per semester. A four-month SIWES industrial training period falls between the first and second years of the ND programme where applicable.
The college provides a computer and ICT centre, lecture halls, hostels and hands-on practical training, a library, a medical centre on campus that runs a 24-hour service, an ethnobotany unit, a Research Development and Coordination Directorate and a consultancy unit.
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View scholarships for Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan →Admission follows a quota: 45% national merit, 35% catchment areas (Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos) and 20% less developed areas. Part-time admission opens when the portal is announced.
HND entry is by National Diploma with at least a lower credit pass in the relevant field, plus industrial training: two years for pass-grade holders and one year for lower credit and above. Programmes last two academic sessions. HND routes: Forestry and Environmental Technology (ND Forestry Technology); Agricultural Extension and Management and Agribusiness Management (ND in any agricultural programme); Horticultural Technology (ND in Agricultural, Forestry or Horticultural Technology, minimum credit); Crop Production Technology (ND Agricultural or Horticultural Technology); Wood Technology (ND Wood and Paper Technology).
Three- to six-month courses (livestock management, wood work, metalwork, silviculture and plantation management, forest guard, ornamental horticulture, vegetable production, landscape design, herbal taxonomy, production and standardization techniques, wood waste utilization) and one-year diplomas (Indigenous Knowledge System, Applied Bioscience, Applied Biotechnology, GIS and Remote Sensing) do not require UTME; O-Level English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and one other science subject are required.
Distinction 3.50-4.00; Upper Credit 3.00-3.49; Lower Credit 2.50-2.99; fail below 2.00.
Forest Hill, Jericho, Ibadan, Oyo State: the main campus, where all ND, HND and short-course programmes are taught.
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